[lurk]

All of the equipment and tooling used for construction of the A10 is also destroyed.

We have no wisdom.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Two pairs of A-10s fly over the Lake of the Ozarks two or three times every week. They appear to be aiming for and striking one of the new bridges across the lake...

[sauropod]

I don’t know why we insist on shooting ourselves in the foot like this.

[servo1969]

Why get rid of them?
Easy- There’s no profit to be made on keeping the perfect plane we already have. We need a new plane with new training classes and new programs and new infrastructure and new spare parts production and...
Make no mistake- they’d retire and replace our B-52s and C-130s if they could convince enough people to do it.

[Yo-Yo]

Davis-Mothan is full of A-10 airframes and Boeing had a contract to rebuild the wings of active A-10s so we don’t need the original tooling.

[tanknetter]

Has it been retired?

Last I heard the retirement was still being debated, and Congress was probably going to override the AF and put the planes back into the budget.

[The Antiyuppie]

“All of the equipment and tooling used for construction of the A10 is also destroyed.”

WHY do they do sh#$ like this? Do they think that the Commies are going to get their hands on it or something??? This is a big country. Don’t we have the space for it????

[Bailee]

I am sure was the Govt to put out a request for new A-10’s we could make them.

Problem would be the Govt trying to make the new ones better.